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After 19 years of practicing at a hospital for alcoholics in Seattle, Dr. Paul O'Hollaren is acutely aware of each move leading to the bottom of the bottle. For the guidance of general practitioners, Dr. O'Hollaren in Medical Times charts a timetable of symptoms drawn from 147 male patients who began drinking at ages 18 to 19, and eventually wound up in his Shadel Hospital. Dr. O'Hollaren's statistics confirm his theory that it usually takes about 18 years to become a confirmed alcoholic. The journey's main stages...
Little Hope. Ultimate symptoms multiply-delirium tremens, extreme nervousness, avitaminosis. The patient deteriorates physically, socially, maritally, emotionally, occupationally, neurologically. Treatment becomes more difficult; the prognosis rapidly dims. The alcoholic has hit bottom. Mean time for Dr. O'Hollaren's 147 patients: 18.4 years...
...Medicine. An alcoholic is given an injection of emetine* (a nauseating drug derived from ipecac). Just before he vomits, he downs a glass of his favorite drink. After several such experiences, the patient begins to detest the taste, smell-or even sight-of liquor. Drs. Paul O'Hollaren and Frederick Lemere made their report from tests at Seattle's Shadel Sanitarium...
...best patients, concluded Drs. O'Hollaren and Lemere, were those who were happily married, successful, intelligent, emotionally stable, financially secure, interested in sobriety clubs (like Alcoholics Anonymous). The worst risks were patients who were heavy drinkers before they were 30, were highly nervous even when sober, had had delirium tremens, were restless in their jobs and careless about money...
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